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Quotes About Delay

in case the dead ones rolled in late.
~ Hilary Mantel
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
~ Hilary Mantel
Michael allowed himself to look at Caddy for the first time since she had climbed into the car. It was a moment that he always put off for as long as possible because his concentration was never quite the same afterwards.
~ Hilary McKay
Tarikh par tarikh, tarikh par tarikh, tarikh par tarikh, tarikh par tarikh milti rahi hai ... lekin insaaf nahi mila. Movie Damini
~ Unknown
She made her voice as firm as possible. "Don't let them catch you." He hesitated, clearly surprised by her words. Then he smiled again, inclining his head in a shallow bow, acknowledging everything she'd left unsaid. "Traveling with you was a delight worth any delay, but I can delay no longer.
~ Holly Black
This will be over quickly, he'd said. But not everything is better for being fast.
~ Holly Black
I will have to do something about Locke eventually, but not tonight.
~ Holly Black
So much of winning is waiting.
~ Holly Black
Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news.
~ Liane Moriarty
Hindsight,' said her father. 'It's always just a fraction too late.
~ Liane Moriarty
Hindsight, it's always just a fraction too late.
~ Liane Moriarty
were all supposed to report at two o'clock.' 'We were, but the train kept getting stuck in the snow. The soldiers had to dig it out. We didn't think we were going to get here at all.' Elsie shuddered. 'Did you notice those huge icicles under the platform at the harbour station? They must be about fifteen
~ Unknown
He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs.
~ Lindsey Davis
Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.
~ Unknown
That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.
~ Lisa Jewell
I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner
~ Lisa Kleypas
We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.
~ John Chilcot
The delay in SpaceShipTwo has not been the development of either of the vehicles. But the rocket motor has just been problematic from the get-go.
~ Brian Binnie
Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a revolution of the police force here in Venezuela, and I will carry it out without delay, without excuses.
~ Nicolas Maduro
în societatea noastr?, care se afl? în continu? miÈ™care, întârzierile dau uneori avansuri.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Oh, I wanted this killer stopped, brought to justice, yes, certainly - but did it have to be so soon?
~ Jeff Lindsay
the Need was very strong now, very careful cold coiled creeping crackly cocked and ready, very strong, very much ready now—and still it waited and watched and it made me wait and watch.
~ Jeff Lindsay
If you can screw up the case in the first few vital hours, it saves time and paperwork later.
~ Jeff Lindsay